Everett Wiggins is a reference librarian with a Masters degree in literature. He is always looking for something good to read, and offers these thoughts to help you. His favorites include The Autobiography of Malcom X, Anna Karenina, Kurt Vonnegut, and Harry Potter. They include others, too, but space is limited...

Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux. NY: Bloomsday USA, 2011. This re-issued 1975 National Book Award winning novel about writing a novel about a would-be novelist's hairpiece is a brilliantly-faceted portrait of an academic writer. It is also far too subtle to compete with summer; it requires the time and attention for wonder, and would be best enjoyed when longer nights allow leisurely lingering.

Jessie Sheidlower, The F-Word (3rd edition). NY: Oxford UP, 2009. "This book contains every sense of fuck, and every compound word or phrase of which fuck is a part, that the editor believes has ever had broad currency in English (xxxvi)."

Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. NY: Riverhead, 2010. "If you were twenty years older and I was fifty years younger..." the titular 91-year-old tells the teenage beauty who comes to care for him after his nephew is shot as she helps him fulfill the promises left unkept at life's end.